[johnnienaked]

"Poorly constructed sentences" don't have an a-ffect, unless you mean the irritance your poorly constructed sentence brought up in this thread.

[viccis]

Are you telling me the run-on sentence in Ulysses has no affect it is meant to convey?

[johnnienaked]

The sentence might affect the reader, but it has no affect of itself because a sentence can't have feelings.